An annual course for students of the ZNZ to get hands-on acquaintance with statistics and its application to research. The goal of this course is to establish basic concepts required for good statistical practice and to give insights into the statistical programming environment R using RStudio and reporting tools such as Rmarkdown. Using real world examples we will show possibilities, limitations, and caveats of using statistics in neurosciences and research in general. This course gives 2 ECTS credit points. If you miss more than 3h there will be no credits awarded.

The crash course will consist of 5 parts. Each part will start with two hours of theory, followed by a publication case study for the introduced topic, and then the participants will work among themselves in the afternoon

Theoretical parts will always be using real world examples from neurosciene publications to put concepts into context

Please bring your own laptop and ensure that you have an internet connection at the venue, power supply is available

Install R & RStudio - there are many guides on the internet on how to do it

A script containing documentation, comments and exercises will be made available for download at the beginning of the course

The lecturer will be coaching the participants on the tasks they will solve such that everyone can work with their own speed of learning to use R

Course material

The course materials are online and will be made available on the first day of the course.

Schedule

The schedule will be released soon.

Literature

The following list of books is not required for this course, but we strongly recommend their lecture.